Hugh C. Newton, R.I.P.HUGH NEWTON's cheerful rubicundity ru·bi·cund adj. Inclined to a healthy rosiness; ruddy. [Latin rubicundus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots. was a fixture on the conservative scene for more than 40 years, whenever he could spare a little time from his mission: spreading the conservative word to the news media. After serving in the Army in the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. , where he saw the face of Communism close up and did not like it, he went to work as a reporter for a small newspaper in Virginia, and then became a corporate speechwriter speech·writ·er n. One who writes speeches for others, especially as a profession. speech  writ . But in 1964--Goldwater's year--he decided, as he put
it, that "I wanted to work for something I believed in." He
joined Reed Larson's National Right to Work Committee as its
public-relations man, and before long news of the battle against forced
union membership was spreading everywhere.
In 1973, Paul Weyrich Paul M. Weyrich (born October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin) is a US conservative political activist and commentator. He is widely considered one of the founders of the American New Right and an important strategist for the social and religious conservative movements. , Joseph Coors Joseph Coors, Sr. (November 12, 1917 – March 15, 2003), was the grandson of Adolph Coors and president of Coors Brewing Company. [1] [2] Birth and education Coors was born in 1917 to Adolph Coors II and Alice May Kistler (1885-1970). , and Ed Feulner started a little organization called the Heritage Foundation, and it hired away Hugh and his buddy Herb Berkowitz to put it on the map. This they did with a PR style that was unusual among conservative organizations at the time. As Feulner puts it, "They knew how to work with the media, not fight it." In the phrase that became their trademark, "We can disagree without being disagreeable." Thanks to them, the Heritage Foundation's growing body of work didn't languish on dusty shelves, but fed op-ed pages and policy seminars across the country. Still, what fellow conservatives will remember best is the conspiratorial con·spir·a·to·ri·al adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of conspirators or a conspiracy: a conspiratorial act; a conspiratorial smile. tilt of the head as, glass in hand, Hugh took you aside to impart the latest news from church or state (and as a traditional Episcopalian, Hugh recently found news from the former no better than news from the latter). And flights of angels sing him to his rest. |
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